Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION
Volume 55, Issue 3, Pages 1004-1009Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2007.891873
Keywords
antenna; dual-band; efficiency; meander line; wideband; wireless local area network (WLAN)
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A printed meander line antenna is described with a shaped ground plane and a back coupled rectangular patch. The prototype is proposed for wireless local-area network (WLAN) applications in the 2.4-2.48 GHz and 5.15-5.35 GHz frequency range. Dual-band operation, resonance impedance matching, and wide impedance bandwidth are the characteristics of the antenna. The antenna impedance matching for the first-resonance is provided by applying a shaped ground plane. The second even-mode resonance is generated by adding a rectangular patch at the back of the meander antenna. The impedance bandwidth for a return-loss less than -10 dB is 11% and 6% for the first- and the second-resonance, respectively. Furthermore,. the second-resonance frequency can be tuned by the length of the rectangular patch and it meets the requirements for the IEEE 802.11a WLAN (5.15-5.35 GHz and 5.470-5.725 GHz or 5.725-5.825 GHz). In fact, the second-resonance frequency can be continuously adjusted between 5.2 and 7 GHz with a little effect on the first-resonance.
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